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Today, Mike Hedges MS specifically mentioned Swansea Co-Housing during debate in the Senedd. He spoke in favour of government support for us and similar organisations, a point reinforced by Tom Giffard MS. We thank both for bringing Swansea Co-Housing to attention and raising the contribution that community led housing in general can make to providing homes.

As you may remember, last year, we had an informative presentation and discussion about Co-Housing by Robin Allison for New Zealand at the Environment Centre in Swansea. She was on an international trip to promote her new book 'Co-Housing for Life’ about the creation of Earthsong, a successful Co-Housing project in Auckland. Robin was the principal founder of the project who soon interested a community about the concept. Together they worked hard on the project over a number of years to see it come to fruition. We managed to get some video footage of her talk at the Enrvionment Centre in Swansea and are pleased that we can share that with you today. 

We have other events taking place during the year and will let you know about them as and when dates have been agreed. Also refer to our website for membership applications and other resources: Swansea CO-HOUSING 

For those who were unable to make Robin's talk last September, her hugely informative book on the experience of creating Earthsong is available online.

This afternoon, board member Adrian Lester attended the council's follow-up meeting to the call for evidence in their Scrutiny Inquiry into Community Asset Transfer (CAT).

As in our written submission, SCH held up as examples other Councils with a more positive attitude toward CAT, and spoke to the benefits which can be afforded both to provision of services by the third sector and maintenance of built infrastructure. On the subject of custodianship of public assets, we made the point that where the council is unable to fulfil that role, the responsible course of action may be to transfer the physical asset to the third sector where a sustainable plan for its future can be demonstrated.